Add a sys interface to allow querying the memory reserved by FADump for
saving the crash dump.
Also added Documentation/ABI for the new sysfs file.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-7-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Add a deprecation note in FADump sysfs ABI documentation files and
move them from ABI/testing to ABI/obsolete directory.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Use a proper table to fix errors from the documentation build]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-6-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
The /sys/firmware/opal/core and /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore
sysfs files are used to export and release the OPAL memory on PowerNV
platform. let's organize them into a new kobject under
/sys/firmware/opal/mpipl/ directory.
A symlink is added to maintain the backward compatibility for
/sys/firmware/opal/core sysfs file.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-5-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
With /sys/firmware/opal/core support available on OPAL based machines
and an option to the release memory used by kernel in exporting this
core file, update FADump documentation with these details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821382786.5656.13173494907671241231.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Kernel config option CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP is introduced to ensure
crash data, from previously crash'ed kernel, is preserved. Update
documentation with this details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821377195.5656.15840065629705958324.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
The figures depicting FADump's (Firmware-Assisted Dump) memory layout
are missing some finer details like different memory regions and what
they represent. Improve the documentation by updating those details.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/156821322070.5656.8194734198500730487.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com
Convert docs to ReST and add them to the arch-specific
book.
The conversion here was trivial, as almost every file there
was already using an elegant format close to ReST standard.
The changes were mostly to mark literal blocks and add a few
missing section title identifiers.
One note with regards to "--": on Sphinx, this can't be used
to identify a list, as it will format it badly. This can be
used, however, to identify a long hyphen - and "---" is an
even longer one.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> # cxl
Bhaskar Chowdhury